I'm trying something new this year...inviting you to join me on my wild wanders. Here are some of the plants I visited with this evening, just before sunset. It's a beautiful time in the North Country!
The first rugosa rose of the year. These flower flush in June and then continue to bloom until the first frost. Each day, I harvest their petals for Rosewater Toner while tiptoeing among a diverse array of bees.
There is something so lovely about the subtle white and yellow flowers that are blooming in the field tonight — not too showy, almost comforting.
The nannyberries are blooming! A tasty wild edible that tastes like raisins, if you’re patient enough to remove the huge seed.
Honeysuckle bush that has taken over the understory of my woods. Each spring, I hand pull the seedlings and cut back the bushes, hoping to give other species a chance at the light.
A Japanese honeysuckle bush that was a decorative planting in my yard. I’m conflicted about keeping it, as the berries are non-nutritious for the birds when they eat them, but the bush is so very pretty.
I associate asters with fall, but these beauties are popping up on the field edges today.
The hawkweed is thinking about blooming! Every year, they grow up right in the middle of the lawn, and we don’t have the heart to cut them back when we mow.
The yarrow is growing slow and steady this year. The flowering tops appear in many Half Wild herbals, including Green Wonder Salve and Herbal Bug Spray.
The wild red columbine poking up from ditches on the side of the road get me every year. Such defiant beauty; we could all learn something from these flowers.
Daisy, daisy, facing the setting sun. They always make me smile.
